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Stalkers linked to murder of banker

POLICE are investigating claims that the bank manager who was gunned down on the doorstep of his home last week had been stalked in the weeks leading up to his death.

Neighbours have reported seeing two men acting suspiciously outside Alistair Wilson’s home in Nairn, Morayshire, in the early hours of the morning. The men, parked in a Mitsubishi four-wheel-drive vehicle, are said to have driven off after being disturbed.

Police are also keen to question the soldiers at the nearby Fort George army barracks who were on duty on the night of the fatal shooting.

Wilson, 30, a new business manager with HBOS, died after being shot twice in the head and once in the body last Sunday. The gunman, who had asked for him by name, then made off. Police have interviewed more than 100 people and have received reports of several possible sightings of the gunman but